Argentina betrayed: memory, mourning, and accountability

by Robben, Antonius C. G. M.

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Full title :Argentina betrayed : memory, mourning, and accountability / Antonius C.G.M. Robben.

Summary

The military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 betrayed the country's people, presiding over disappearances of its citizenry and, in the process, destroying the state's trustworthiness as the guardian of safety and well-being. Desperate relatives risked their lives to find the disappeared, and one group of mothers defied the repressive regime with weekly protests at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. This book looks at how societies cope with human losses and sociocultural traumas in the aftermath of such instances of political violence and state terror. The author demonstrates that the dynamics of trust and betrayal that convulsed Argentina during the dictatorship did not end when democracy returned but rather persisted in confrontations over issues such as the truth about the disappearances, the commemoration of the past, and the guilt and accountability of perpetrators.--Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Pennsylvania Press
Place of Publication:Philadelphia
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 294 pages : : map ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780812250053, 0812250052
oclc:on1000046572
LC Classification:HV6433.A7
Dewey Decimal:982.06/4

Introduction: Trust and betrayal -- Trauma -- Memory -- Testimony -- Denial -- Sovereignty -- Accountability -- Guilt -- Mourning -- Conclusion.

Subjects

15.85 history of America Argentina Argentina -- Social conditions -- 1983- Argentine -- Conditions sociales -- 198… Confiance -- Aspect politique -- Argent… Confiance -- Aspect social -- Argentine Justice transitionnelle -- Argentine Memory -- Political aspects Memory -- Political aspects -- Argentina Political violence -- Social aspects --… Since 1983 Social conditions State-sponsored terrorism -- Social asp… Terrorisme d'État -- Aspect social -- A… Transitional justice Transitional justice -- Argentina Trust -- Political aspects Trust -- Political aspects -- Argentina Trust -- Social aspects Trust -- Social aspects -- Argentina